WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their…

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On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed.In a series of terrible…

Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in…

Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed…

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at…

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Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration…

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With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. as if…

Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists,…

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The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a…

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LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history;…

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Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports and government documents, as well as hundreds of interviews, Farrell…

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The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain todayYou're British.…

A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisisHow can society cope with…

REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON 1Q84As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo…

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Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror…

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`Superb' William Boyd`Fascinating... An exceptional story of espionage and betrayal, thrillingly told' Philippe Sands`A…

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An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring…

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as…

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The…

What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the…

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works\'James Wood is a…

For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking…

Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian'…

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In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to…

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Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. The Fashion System, published in France in…

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with…

The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal ImpressionsWinston…

Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system…

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The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures,…

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The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. The…

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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the…

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Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) this is the fourth part of Robert Caro's monumental work on…

`The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The…